How to Configure OSPF Authentication

A variety of risks exist when deploying a routing protocol in a network. It’s very much true for OSPF. It’s because, OSPF does not have any built in authentication mechanism for peers. You need to configure OSPF Authentication, to make your neighbor establishment secure.

Written by Rajib Kumer Das

I am Rajib Kumer Das, a network engineer with 8+ years of experience in multi-vendor environment. In my current position, I am responsible to take care critical projects and it's support cases. I do have several vendor certificates and have plans to go further.